[sustran] Fw: Comments on Litman

Wendell Cox wcox at publicpurpose.com
Sun Feb 13 00:12:39 JST 2000


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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 3:52 PM
Subject: [transport-policy] Highway vs Rail vs Future


> Todd Litman Wrote:
>
> >>Cox's website includes the factoid that it would be cheaper to give each
> user of Seattle's proposed rail system a new Jaguar car. This is a false
> comparison. Rail includes right-of-way and avoids parking, so a more
> appropriate comparison would be the cost of the car, the road and a
> parking space, which would tend to be quite high in the high density urban
> corridor that the rail line will serve.<<
>
> I think Mr. Cox means that, when people use rail, they still need other
> transport at each end of their trip. Highways eliminate that. I need three
> questions answered:
>
>     1. Why are the comparisons always Highway vs Rail?
>
>     2. Did anybody in Victioria look at any developing technology for the
> solution?
>
>     3. Why do all transport people seem to think that mass transit means
big
>     transit? The only other thing they seem to know about is maglev, which
> brings      up the same end-of-line problem Mr. Cox is talking about.
Doesn't
> an      hourly capacity figure make more sense?
>
> When rail was profitable, state and city didn't build them, people did.
Now,
> everybody wants government money used to build more, because no
businessman
> ever would. I think I have something that would produce a profit, and that
> people would build it.
>
> Please look at my website, the benefits and plan buttons, not the
pictures. I
> would like to hear from you as to whether this might work, as a way to get
> something new growing. The cost to the city could be as little as the
> test-system cost, about ten million. The rest could be done on the public
> market.
>
> Jack Slade
> Skytrek Systems
>
> http://www3.sympatico.ca/karen.graham/skytrek/Skytrek.htm
>
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